I missed my own anniversary. This blog turned two on May 16. Since it was born out of my first break-up with Lieu, and since the one-year anniversary of our last break-up is coming soon, I thought it might be a good time to reflect on where I am right now on the love front [...]
1. I have lost my muse. If you see it, email me and I’ll give you my address so you can send it back. 2. Question of the day: If you were new to a job and a colleague (executive) you don’t know well described you during an icebreaker as “bold” would you think.. A) [...]
You really get me Mostly, I’m posting today just to tell you to go read Boniverotica right away. (It’s not actually erotica. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) I can’t quite express how much I love it, nor quite how close to the bone it hits me. It makes me uncomfortable like Stuff White [...]
June 2011 I admit to myself that I am powerless over pyramids of overpriced, pretentious produce, and also that I am a cook only in my head, not in real life, which is where all of the food I buy rots away. I swear off Whole Foods forever. Friday, March 16, 2012 (end of second [...]
1. Self-promotion: DC people…I will once again be gracing–or perhaps awkwarding–a stage this weekend, trying to be funny, except this time the other people on stage will be actual performers who do this all the time, so…no pressure. It’s Saturday night in Adams Morgan. Comment or email me if you want details; it will be really [...]
1. Start your sentence with “Look.” Make sure I can really hear the period at the end. It makes the muscles in my neck clench, so I can hold my head up and make meaningful eye contact with you, and eye contact creates trust and intimacy. 2. “Listen” or “Now you listen” are also good [...]
The 411 from the 4/11 one. Where you come from shapes where you end up, one way or another. Better living through chemistry is not only possible, but transformational. Living the unexamined life sounds kind of restful sometimes, but who are we kidding. Heartbreak is not fatal. I am lucky that I escaped my bar [...]
Wild Geese * Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. [...]
My friends always work their way around to asking me if I’m dating–and no, I’m not. I feel like I should be but the effort it would take to do so is laughably beyond my current capacity. Plus, as I only selectively admit in real life, I’m not quite ready. Em asked me yesterday, as [...]
I wrote this then. Good to see that I have experienced a lot of personal growth in the intervening seven years. Apparently my whole life is groundhog day. You can look forward to increasingly morose/falsely cheerful posts all week since I turn 37 on Wednesday! I woke up early every day in Costa Rica. [...]
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